Thanks for the nice review! Week after week you have a knack for picking out the one part I’m least certain about :) so I’m yet again grateful for your constructive criticism. I went with ‘wiped gently’ because I wanted the emphasis to feel like it fell on ‘gently,’ but I’m still by no means certain of my choice haha. Thanks again!

See? This is the reason you’re getting all those awards! Effortless prose that grabs the reader in a heartbeat, and then the revelation hits and it’s even more than expected. I could hate you if I didn’t enjoy the reading so much!

I loved your story, with an emotional ending. Very nice, and easy to see it all without a lot of explanation. Clear enough to one not having to ask the question ‘what’ is it about. I can relate too to the ‘bad knees’. I have had a knee replacement, because of an injured knee.

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